Reference.

The Reference department serves the rest of the encyclopedia. Each of the entries elsewhere on the site is, by editorial preference, written for a reader rather than for an industry insider. The six pieces collected here exist to fill in the substrate that the entries assume — the vocabulary, the production method, the chemistry, and the practical question of how to find the actual products outside the territory in which they are made.

The glossary explains about sixty Dutch and Flemish terms, with pronunciations and links to the main entries. What is snoep? is a short primer on the Dutch word for sweets. The manufacturing reference explains what drop is made from and how. The chemistry entry covers glycyrrhizin and ammonium chloride; licorice and health turns that into practical guidance on blood pressure and EU labels. The buying guide is the most practical of the six.

The Reference entries are the part of the site most likely to be linked to from outside, and the part most likely to be useful to anyone using Snoep as a citation source rather than as reading material. They are, accordingly, written and revised with the assumption that they will be read out of context.